Today In History - August 16

...2005, supermodel Claudia Schiffer blamed her strictly thrifty nature on her German roots. "Even if I eat an apple and take only a couple of bites, I don't throw it away but put it in the refrigerator," she said. "Some of my friends say, 'You're nuts.'"

But she insisted she didn't intend to get any better at letting things go to waste. "I think this is the typically German way," she went on. "I've been raised this way and will probably always be like that, no matter how much money I have."